The Water-cure journal, and herald of reforms, devoted to physiology, hydropathy and the laws of life . add still another, as is done by thousandsof females who lace in the diameter of the chest, we find the evidences ofabnormal respiration and circulation still more complicated, and the patientdisturbed with so many badfeelings, that she cannottell the half of them if shetalks from morning tillnight. In Fig. 5 are seen thenormal relations of theheart, lungs and to all the causes of a de-ranged circulation I havethus far adverted to, weadd that of diminishing thediameter of the ch
The Water-cure journal, and herald of reforms, devoted to physiology, hydropathy and the laws of life . add still another, as is done by thousandsof females who lace in the diameter of the chest, we find the evidences ofabnormal respiration and circulation still more complicated, and the patientdisturbed with so many badfeelings, that she cannottell the half of them if shetalks from morning tillnight. In Fig. 5 are seen thenormal relations of theheart, lungs and to all the causes of a de-ranged circulation I havethus far adverted to, weadd that of diminishing thediameter of the chest one-fourth or one-third, wehave exactly the state of iaflairs our hydropathic es-tablishments are called up-on to cure every day inth^year. And what aggra-vates them especially is,their former physician, af-ter drugging, and blister-ing, and leeching till hisvery humanity revoltedagainst tormenting themany further, threw out a suspicion that there micfht be some affection about the heart which medicinewouldnt reach!Let us now reverse the picture, and consider the whole matter d priori. Fig. 5,. THORACIC VISCERA. e^
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